Scheephammer

The Scheephammer , also known as Hege or Hage , is a hand tool in the salt works that is used to clean the boiling pans . As a Scheephammer, a coarser wooden hammer is used to strike the thin sheet metal walls of a pan and a smaller, pointed metal hammer with a wooden handle, the sweeping hammer , for strongly adhering remnants of the heel.

Different names are used regionally for the tool, which are derived from the different names for the pan stone. The pan stone is also referred to as a stone jar , stone crust and stone kürste or, much more often, dialectically with Schepp, Schep, Schöp, Scherp or Scheep . Accordingly, when a compound is formed as a descriptive expression for the term, the monosyllabic word form preferred in the region becomes a component of the new word formation, for example in Scheephammer.

The pan stone or Scheep is the lime that flocculates when salt boiling, together with a mixture of impurities. It settles on the wall and bottom of the boiling tub. The separation of the brine components associated with the settling process may well be desirable, but it makes the actual boiling process increasingly difficult and can even lead to the pan burning through. Therefore, a salt pan should normally be freed from the approach every two days. To do this, the dry pan is heated over a light fire. The pan stone - mostly mainly gypsum , Glauber's salt and salt - can then flake off like a stone skin. Movements using the Scheephammer against the floor or the side of the tub help, if possible along the riveted seam, with which the Scheep is hammered, knocked off and pushed off. It is called "pan sprinkling".

literature

• Smaller conversation lexicon. Part 4, Gerhard Fleischer, young, Leipzig 1815, p. 151.
• Johann Georg Krünitz : Economic-technological encyclopedia, or general system of the state, town, house and agriculture, and the history of art . Volume 172, Paulische Buchhandlung, Berlin 1839, p. 590.